provide databases with standard metadata fields?

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Quickly search, compare, and analyze genomic and metagenomic data sets.

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provide databases with standard metadata fields? #1847

Open ctb opened 2 years ago

ctb commented 2 years ago

like authors, citation DOI, original download URL, version, and description

bluegenes commented 2 years ago

+1000!

Will really help with db tracking, versioning, etc instead of having to rely on names.

ctb commented 2 years ago

idle thought: I wonder if we could/should use the hackmd approach of having standard YAML headers? e.g. a README.md file in a zipfile like this,

---
author:
version: 
DOI:
---

# general markdown information

this database was lovingly handcrafted by Tessa Pierce to meet the needs of modern researchers

ctb commented 2 years ago

or we could continue to avoid YAML and go with TOML or something 🤔

ctb commented 2 years ago

creation date!

ctb commented 2 years ago